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About Tarbert

Tarbert, Tairbeart in Irish, is a town in County Kerry, 51 km west of Limerick. It stands on the N69. The map gives it 1,600 buildings and 3 named streets, with 34 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 65 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
546, as the map records it
Where
51 km west of Limerick, 226 km from Dublin
Position
52.5726° N, 9.3745° W, 2 m above sea level
Roads
N69
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,600 buildings, 3 streets, 34 named places in 27 kinds
Lighthouse on Shannon river at Tarbert
Lighthouse on Shannon river at Tarbert·psyberartist, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Water View at Tarbert
Water View at Tarbert·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kerry since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

293,880112,772156,45818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 65 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N69 running through Tarbert.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Tarbert Comprehensive School, Tarbert Comprehensive School and Tarbert National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Tarbert?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 51 km west of Limerick and 226 km from Dublin, on the N69.
How big is Tarbert?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,600 buildings, 3 named streets and 34 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Tarbert?
65 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tarbert Playground, Toberteh and Carheen.
How do you get to Tarbert?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Kerry and TFI Local Link Limerick Clare.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
1,600
buildings on the model
3
named streets
34
named places
27
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q969955). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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